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"[...]to the beginning of the short cut, he thought: "Surely I should be a goose if I, with such an empty stomach, should walk seven miles instead of half that." And so he turned off into the short cut through Kiikkala Forest and determined to hear himself say the Catechism while he was going through the woods. He had not gone far before he saw a thin little old man, dragging a cart loaded with twelve iron bars. "Good-day, Knut Spelevink," said the old man. "Why do you look so poorly to-day?" "Why shouldn't I look poorly, when I have eaten nothing but Catechism since yesterday noon? But how did you know my new name?" "I know all names," answered the old man, who was really a troll.[...]."show more